[squeak-dev] Re: About unloading of packages in the most recent Squeak 4.1 trunk

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 04:03:27 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 8/24/2010 6:53 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>> BTW, I'm not proposing relaxing this rule for trunk images, only for
>> images in which packages have been unloaded, even packages in which all
>> unloadable packages have been unloaded.  I don't want to wreck updating,
>> all I want is for updating to work to some acceptable degree in
>> unload-all-unloadable-packages (UAUP) images.
>>
>> I'm sorry, I thought I was being clear and wasn't.  It is IMO
>> preferrable to add a hack for UAUP images that allows them to update the
>> packages they have available than the current situation where updating
>> is possible only in a full trunk image.
>>
>
> Give it a shot; just load the latest version of MonticelloConfigurations
> into the image you want to update, disable the "Update missing packages"
> preference, press update, and let me know if it blows up or not :-)
>

Excellent; works perfectly!  The preference must be updated manually because
there's no preferences browser (for others evaluate (MCMcmUpdater classPool
at: #UpdateMissingPackages put: false)) but with that done update went
without a hitch. Thank you!


> (the change is minor and trivial to retract if it turns out to be more
> trouble than it's worth)
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
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